American Odyssey (known in the UK under its original title
Odyssey)
[2][3] is an American thriller television series which premiered on April 5, 2015, on
NBC.
[4] Created by
Peter Horton, Adam Armus and Kay Foster, the series revolves around the discovery by a U.S. Army team on a secret mission in
Mali, that a major U.S. company has been funding Islamist terror groups, and the subsequent cover-up of this revelation, which involves the attack and killing of the team of U.S. soldiers by private military contractors dispatched by the same company.
The series stars
Anna Friel,
Peter Facinelli, Jake Robinson,
Jim True-Frost,
Treat Williams,
Nate Mooney,
Elena Kampouris,
Daniella Pineda,
Sadie Sink,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Omar Ghazaoui. It is envisioned by the creators as a modern-day take on
Homer's
Odyssey.
[5]
On June 30, 2015, NBC cancelled the series after one season.